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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
WEEKS, John Elmer (1853 – 1949)

WEEKS, John Elmer (1853 – 1949)

1853 – 1949

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Walter J. Bigelow (1865-1935) · Vermont, its Government, 1919, page 78 · Public domain

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1886 CE

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The bacillus of acute conjunctival catarrh or “pink eye”.

WEEKS, John Elmer (1853 – 1949)
WEEKS, John Elmer (1853 – 1949)

In 1883 Koch discovered the bacilli of two different forms of infectious conjunctivitis (Egyptian ophthalmia); in 1886. Weeks discovered the same organism to be the cause of “pink-eye”. The organism has be…